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No. III · Friday, 3 July 2026
Transnational Organized CrimeSIGNIFICANT SEIZUREIreland

Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau cracks third 500-BTC wallet from a decade-old drug case, total reaches 1,500 BTC

What? Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau, working with Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, confirmed July 2 it recovered a third 500-BTC batch (~$30–90M, depending on valuation) tied to convicted cannabis trafficker Clifton Collins, whose 6,000-BTC drug-proceeds stash — split across a dozen wallets — was long thought unrecoverable. Nine of twelve original wallets, worth well over $275M at current prices, remain untouched.
Confirmed · Sources: The Block · Cointelegraph (July 2, 2026)